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The majority of East Bengali refugees settled in the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) and various other towns and rural areas of West Bengal, but a significant number also moved to the Barak Valley of Assam and the princely state of Tripura which eventually joined India in 1949.
The arrival of Bihari refugees in camps in Sindh and Bengal in 1946 paralleled the later movement of refugees in 1947. [20] Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (then a student leader) toured affected villages in Bihar with his relief team and was moved to ask Bihari refugees to move to East Bengal in 1947. [17]
Ten million Bengali refugees fled into neighbouring India because of famine and ravages of the Pakistan army, [12] where the regions of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley shared strong ethnic, linguistic and cultural links with East Pakistan. The war sparked an unprecedented level of unity in the Bengali-speaking world.
West-Bengal Refugees and Political Activists Oral History Collection at the International Institute of Social History — Interviews with Bengali refugees and political activists, covering the period 1947-1970
Through the Dandakaranya Project the Bengali refugees would be resettled on tribal lands, and integrate and uplift the area belonging to the tribal people. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] In 1947 a high level committee known as the AMPO committee, made up of the Indian states Andhra Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh (the part is known as Chhattisgarh ) and Odisha , was ...
An estimated 10 million Bengali refugees fled to neighbouring India, while 30 million were internally displaced. [24] The war changed the geopolitical landscape of South Asia, with the emergence of Bangladesh as the world's seventh-most populous country.
Orient Airways, owned by an East Bengal-based industrialist, launched the first flights between Karachi and Dacca. The airline later evolved into Pakistan International Airlines. The Chittagong Tea Auction was established in 1949. As a result of the Bengali language movement, East Bengal was a center of Bengali cultural activities.
Bengali people may be broadly classified into sub-groups predominantly based on dialect but also other aspects of culture: Bangals: This is a term used predominantly in Indian West Bengal to refer to East Bengalis – i.e. Bangladeshis as well as those whose ancestors originate from Eastern Bengal. The East Bengali dialects are known as Bangali ...